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Stephen Amidon
Wild Bard of Woody Creek
Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S Thompson
By William McKeen
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October 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
A War Quartet
Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West
By Andrew Roberts
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May 2008 Issue
Donald Rayfield
Strolls with Vladimir
Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics
By Nina L Khrushcheva
May 2008 Issue
Sam Leith
Wit and Wisdom
Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace
By Kurt Vonnegut (With an Introduction by Mark Vonnegut)
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June 2008 Issue
John Gray
Revolt Against Death
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir
By David Rieff
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June 2008 Issue
Stephen Amidon
High Plains Drifter
The Legend of Colton H Bryant
By Alexandra Fuller
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March 2008 Issue
M R D Foot
Silence at the Front
The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended
By Nicholas Best
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February 2008 Issue
John Gribbin
Playing With Fire
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer
By Kai Bird & Martin J Sherman
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December 2007 Issue
John Gribbin
Fly Me to the Moon
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
By Matthew Brzezinski
Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest
By Gerard DeGroot
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December 2007 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
The Word Merchant
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticisms
By John Updike
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November 2007 Issue
Frederick Taylor
Dramatic Divide
Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War
By Patrick Wright
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November 2007 Issue
Brenda Maddox
On the Stein Trail
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
By Janet Malcolm
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September 2007 Issue
Michael Burleigh
Legacy of Ashes
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
By Tim Weiner
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August 2007 Issue
Andrew Lycett
Hard on Their Heels
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer
By Tim Jeal
Dr Livingstone, I Presume? Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers & Empire
By Clare Pettitt
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August 2007 Issue
Christopher Coker
They Deserved Each Other
Nixon: The Invincible Quest
By Conrad Black
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
By Robert Dallek
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July 2007 Issue
Christopher Coker
How to Fight a Cold War
George Kennan: A Study in Character
By John Lukacs
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July 2007 Issue
Gerard Baker
Saint Ronald
The Reagan Diaries
By Douglas Brinkley (ed)
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May 2006 Issue
Richard Overy
A Curious Correspondence
My Dear Mr Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph V Stalin
By Susan Butler (ed), Foreward by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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April 2006 Issue
Charles Wheeler
After The Bomb
American Shogun: MacArthur, Hirohito and the American Duel with Japan
By Robert Harvey
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May 2014 Issue
Neil Gregor
To the Victor, the Spoils
The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order, 1916–1931
By Adam Tooze
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